Ground & Rise® Tarot with Sam Starr
Combining Tarot with Psychosynthesis for grounded archetype work
For coaches and therapists who hold space for others, Ground & Rise® Tarot offers a grounded, psychologically informed way to sustain your own reflective practice.
Blending psychosynthesis and Tarot, it supports archetypal exploration, somatic awareness and the self-reflection essential to your professional growth.
Ground & Rise® Tarot can be experienced through training or in consultation:
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Where Tarot becomes a pathway to professional presence
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Ways to work with Ground & Rise®:
Begin or deepen your journey with tarot as a tool for reflection and growth.
Explore at your own pace with the Ground & Rise® Self-Support Booklet, or join a Beginner’s Tarot Course to learn the foundations.
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Sarah Hayes, Holistic Financial Wellness specialist
For coaches and therapists who wish to integrate tarot within reflective, psychosynthesis-informed CPD.
Across six one-to-one sessions, we’ll explore the archetypes, inner dynamics, and unconscious influences that shape your work – creating space for presence, self-awareness, and personal growth in practice.
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Eva Sanner, Coach and Therapist
A one-to-one space for reflection, clarity, and reconnection with your inner wisdom.
Together, we’ll explore what’s unfolding through the archetypes and stories of the cards – using tarot as a mirror for self-understanding and a guide toward new perspectives and grounded insight.
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I believe that pulling cards with a clear context helps you find your own answers and deepen professional presence
…and Ground & Rise® Tarot guides you there
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Bigger picture guidance
I was at a point in my life when I needed to make a big decision. After working with Sam I felt so much clearer and it gave me the courage to take the next step. I hadn’t worked with tarot before but it was a fantastic platform and gave a kind of ‘bigger picture’ guidance
N.B.
SME Founder
Finding your way back home
I would highly recommend Sam as a guide for anyone who is ready to do the inner work and open to a more spiritual approach – something I believe is essential for truly exploring our inner landscape.
She is a wise and compassionate guide who gently supports you in finding your way back home to yourself.
Valentina, Coach
Reassured and refreshed!
Sam engaged deeply with the cards, and with me, to make sense of what the cards could mean for my current and future path for my career and my personal healing.
This has really added clarity for me for where I am now. I feel reassured and refreshed!
S.L, Change-management consultant
The Ground & Rise® approach
Ground & Rise® combines the healing principles of psychosynthesis psychology, meditation, and tarot.
Psychosynthesis is a psychology of the human’s innate capacity to heal and grow psychologically and spiritually. It invites us to integrate our many parts and live in closer alignment with the soul’s unfolding.
Often described as a depth or soul psychology, psychosynthesis offers a way of understanding the movement between our human experience and higher potential.
Within Ground & Rise®, these principles meet the language of the tarot – creating a reflective, experiential framework for self-enquiry and archetypal exploration.
Core principles include:
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Bringing different parts of the self into dialogue and harmony
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Using tarot imagery to deepen insight and reflection
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Noticing limiting beliefs and habitual mindsets
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Exploring patterns and archetypes that shape identity and relationship
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Inviting creative, intuitive exploration
Through this work, we learn to recognise our inner landscape with compassion – seeing where energy is flowing freely and where it’s asking for integration. From this awareness, greater presence, connection, and aligned action can emerge.
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HELLO, I’M
Sam Starr
I’ve been pulling cards all my adult life. My dad died when I was 18 and my mum is a drinker, so there wasn’t much steady ground. The cards gave me hope – a way of connecting to guidance and to feel like someone was listening.
But I never touched the Tarot! It always felt too big and scary – like it needed a proper introduction.
Fast forward a few decades. I was doing my Master’s degree in psychosynthesis psychology and had this idea to create my own deck for my thesis. I thought that if I was going to make my own cards then I should probably understand the Mother Of All Decks first. So I joined a Tarot Academy.
Then life being life, I caught Covid on holiday and ended up in a hotel room in Germany for ten days of isolation with my new Tarot deck for company. This is when I started experimenting – mapping the cards onto psychosynthesis models of Self. Something about it just clicked. The cards suddenly spoke clearly. The context wasn’t abstract or mystical anymore; it was a psychological language that I understood.
Back at the Tarot Academy, I noticed people got tied up in “getting it right” – worrying about language, or ‘correct’ interpretation. Psychosynthesis gave me a way to stay grounded in it all. Discovering the Tarot as a tool for psychosynthesis (meaningful change) eventually became my thesis, and it formed the foundation of Ground & Rise® Tarot.
And nowadays, when I start to feel a bit untethered, I pick up a deck and just shuffle, draw a card, sit with it. This always calms me down, and brings me back to the present moment, feeling connected to Self, while also connecting to the Great Mystery and my dad. Ground & Rise® Tarot is a remarkable companion and tool that I’d love to share with you.
Sometimes all we need is a pause – a moment to listen, reflect, and notice what’s already speaking from within
NEW: SELF-SUPPORT BOOKLET NOW AVAILABLE
Looking for a grounded way to deepen your connection with the Tarot?
The Ground & Rise® Tarot Self-Support Booklet is a downloadable guide offering intuitive, psychologically informed interpretations of every card, along with four reflective spreads for self-enquiry and decision-making.
It’s a companion for beginners, students, and anyone wishing to build a more grounded, personal relationship with the Tarot.
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